Breakdown of Im Allgemeinen ist das Wetter hier gut.
sein
to be
hier
here
gut
good / well
das Wetter
the weather
im Allgemeinen
in general
Questions & Answers about Im Allgemeinen ist das Wetter hier gut.
Why is Allgemeinen capitalized here if it comes from the adjective allgemein?
It is a nominalized adjective, meaning an adjective that is being used as a noun. In German, all nouns are capitalized. It comes from the neuter noun das Allgemeine (the general concept).
Why does the verb ist come before the subject das Wetter?
This happens because of the verb-second rule. The phrase Im Allgemeinen takes up the first position in the sentence. The conjugated verb ist must stay in the second position, so the subject das Wetter gets pushed to the third position.
Why do we use im rather than just in?
The word im is a contraction of in dem. The preposition in takes the dative case here because it describes a static, abstract concept rather than a physical movement. Since das Allgemeine is neuter, its dative article is dem.
Why does Allgemeinen end in -en?
Even though it is acting as a noun, it still uses standard adjective endings. Because it follows the definite dative article dem (which is contracted into im), it takes the weak ending. Weak adjectives in the dative case always end in -en.
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